Mikhail Mishutin

Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishutin (3 March 1966-) was Prime Minister of Russia from 16 January 2020, succedeing Dmitry Medvedev.

Biography
Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishutin was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 3 March 1966 to a Russian father and an Armenian mother. He worked as a systems engineer before receiving two PhDs in economics, and he also played the piano and hockey and sat on the supervisory board of Russia's CSKA hockey club. In 2010, he was appointed head of the Federal Tax Service under President Vladimir Putin and declared war on "dirty data", and RT praised his job performance. On 16 January 2020, President Putin nominated the little-known Mishutin to serve as Prime Minister after his entire cabinet resigned to make way for constitutional changes which would strengthen the premiership at the expense of the presidency and allow for Putin to continue dominating the country as Prime Minister once his term-limited presidency ended in 2024. Mishutin supported preserving macroeconomic stability, maintaining inflation around 4%, and accelerating work on Putin's "national projects" development program.